On Sep 4, 2012 7:49 AM, <g....@free.fr> wrote: > > > > ----- Mail original ----- > > De: "Firerat" <fire...@googlemail.com> > > À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> > > Envoyé: Mardi 4 Septembre 2012 07:14:34 > > Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] campaign to save su > ... > > > > It has been too long since I last played around with it, but looking > > at my scripts I > > > > ln -sv su-tools /tools/bin/su > > > > I honestly don't recall where the su-tools came from. > > It may have been included in the package users hint's blobs ( > > more_control_helpers.tar.bz2 ) > > -- > > su-tools was chap 5 coreutils su, not suid installed, so this is not a solution. > well.... you are wrong, it is the solution
You need to understand why they need it. Not for getting root but switching user from root to a non privileged user and as such it need not be suid. -- Firerat > Gilles > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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